Description
- Pseudosuchian
- Late Triassic Age
- Bull Canyon Formation
- San Migeul County, New Mexico
- Specimen measures approx. 1/8โณ long and will come in the 1.25โณ Gem Jar
Pseudosuchians (Pseudosuchia) are archosaurs that include modern crocodilians and their extinct relatives. The name โPseudosuchiaโ means โfalse crocodilesโ and that makes it a bit odd because crocodiles are pseudosuchians too. The group name Pseudosuchia was originally given to a group of superficially crocodile-like prehistoric animals from Triassic period, but it was later used to refer the crocodilian-line archosaurs when it was realized that crocodilian descended from some of these Triassic animals.
Pseudosuchians appeared during Early Triassic and soon they took over the niches left from therapsids that went extinct in PermianโTriassic mass extinction or the Great Dying. They ruled ruled the world during most Triassic, but later on the dinosaurs were also diversifying.
